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Finally, a gender-equal non-offensive programming language

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15 pointsjanjongboom19 comments

I'm surprised at how much dedication can be poured into an unfunny joke.

I'm assuming this is in response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6893756.

See, that first post was legitimately interesting. The author didn't claim existing languages were offensive in any way. She just wanted to explore the idea of feminist philosophy as applied to computation.

This, on the other hand, is a mean spirited "parody" of feminism. This is the kind of toxic bullshit that makes programming culture so unattractive.

So thanks for that.

There is nothing attractive in hard work. That's why it is not for the ladies.

May the ghost of Grace Hopper fill all your code with moths.

She ain't a lady dude. And then in an uniform… cold bro, cold. That's exactly what I meant. But, tastes are not debatable. I'll take my lady any day over that soldier.

I'm not your 'bro'. I think that to qualify for that position I would have to first think that you were not a complete and utter muppet, which given the current evidence is something that is not likely to occur.

Oh, how sensitive! I had to correctly guess then ;-) No ladies in your life? :-)

Arielle Schlesinger just unintentionally became the most successful troll in recent memory. Who gets so exercised by a grad student's idea for a thesis that they create a functioning and exhaustively documented programming language? This sucker, that's who.

This is incredibly depressing.

So how do I flag a project on Github as stupid?

I think it is a reaction to this - http://www.hastac.org/blogs/ari-schlesinger/2013/11/26/femin...

I am still trying to work out if that article is satire or not as it seems to be in a similar vein as Alan Sokal's "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/trans...

It references her blog post; this is just bullying and should be flagged as such.

I thought it was taking the piss out of the concept stated in the article about coding using a feminist ideology. You are allowed to take the piss out of concepts. I think they have been blunt in their piss taking, but this seems to be directed at the argument, not the person.

I doubt it's a serious project

I thought it was very funny :-)

"After birth, a program has a 40% chance of doing what is done in the code, 40% of "not in the mood" (i.e. nothing occurs), and 40% of randomly reorganising the execution order of the functions found in main(). Math(s) don't real."

I'm sold.

Cobol?

This is why as a natural born humanities guy I like programming so much. It is indifferent to ideologies and extremely difficult to penetrate by the cultural Marxists of different types. The thing is simple: You can code or you can't code. And if you can't, don't give me your excuses, but get back to work and learn! That's equality in action and that's why feminists and other left-wing obsessionists hate it so much. Because it is equal. It shows they need special treatment. Special programming languages, special this and special that. Appsrently they are too dumb for the real thing. Sorry don't have time for that. Making $$$ here.

Are you a bit hard of thinking?

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